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by Anonymous User on Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 09:25:37 PM PDT

You have pretty much quoted enough of Article 8 Section 8 to make the point. The objective is to secure progress and the advancement of the useful arts. That is a public not private good and it is secured by trading some of the publics rights away - limited by he constraints of Article 8 Section 8. Though the current supreme court has pretty much found the limits mentioned to be meaningless. Your post makes the logic error of confusing the means with the ends. I will conceede that there probably is an assesment of IPR that does not presume them to be a necescary evil. Certainly people like Burke, Jefferson, and Madison considered them evil. The primary point of debate was whether they were necescary or not.

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